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Airlines’ new routes from N.W.T. to Ontario can capitalize on int’l tourism: expert

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 11:14
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By Jenna Dulewich · CBC News 2 airlines announced direct or same-day flights from Yellowknife to Ontario As airlines announce new connections

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 News Politics (Canada) 

N.W.T. MLAs get glimpse of future remediation work, and question how northerners will benefit

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 17:26
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What will life look like in the Northwest Territories, after the mines? There are more than 500 sites in the

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* Featured * Business (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 Society (Canada) 

Downtown business owners hope report recommendations ease tensions around Whitehorse shelter

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 11:48
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“Beautification,” community liaisons, organized activities and decentralization. Those are some of the solutions a new report offers to ease tensions

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 2 General Sweden 

Reindeer herding affected by increased tourism in Swedish mountains

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, May 8, 2023 at 10:30
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Tourism in Jämtland and Härjedalen has increased hugely in recent years, affecting other activities in the region, including reindeer herding.

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* Featured * Business Business (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Old icebreakers eye upgrades for Murmansk-Vladivostok tourism

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 16:00
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As international cruise liners pull out of the Russian Arctic amid Ukraine war, a domestic initiative launches month-long voyages along

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 3 

Tourism rebounded in Yukon last year, but not to pre-pandemic levels

CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 6, 2023 at 10:12
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Yukon’s lucrative tourism sector took a major hit during the pandemic, but the latest data from the territorial government suggests

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* Featured * Art Art (Canada) Art and Culture Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General 

Inuvik to welcome back the sun with annual weekend festival

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 14:22
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A 27-minute sunrise in Inuvik, N.W.T., this Friday will trigger a full weekend of festivities as residents gather to welcome the

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* Featured * Business Business (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Most expedition cruise liners exclude Russian Arctic

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 at 09:31
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The war on Ukraine and geopolitical turbulence with concerns growing of further escalations of tensions with Russia have knock-on effects

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* Featured * Business Business (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General 

Rovaniemi gets seven new flight connections to European cities

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 15:29
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Post-pandemic travel is on rise for winter destinations in northern Finland with a wide range of new direct flights from

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General 

Tourists return to Yukon, Canada, but season isn’t without challenges

Leslie Amminson, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 1, 2022 at 09:40
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Staff shortages, inflation hard on business owners Yukon’s tourism industry is coming back to life, but for operators getting back

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* Featured * Business Business (Finland) Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

Tourism in Finnish Lapland faces uncertainty due to sanctions on Russia

Saara-Maria Salonen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, April 11, 2022 at 17:14
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The closure of Russian airspace is causing uncertainty in Lapland’s tourism industry, which has relied heavily on travel from Asian

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Business Business (Finland) Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

New flight routes benefited Finland’s Arctic tourism this Christmas season

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 27, 2021 at 09:22
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Up to 200 planes are arriving in Finnish Lapland during Christmas week with tourists from all over Europe. That is

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* Featured * Business Business (Norway) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Crisis-ridden Norwegian cruise and adventure company sells properties in Svalbard

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 10:02
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Hurtigruten has over many years significantly strengthened its presence in the far northern archipelago and today owns several hotels, office

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* Featured * Business Business (Finland) Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General 

Finland-Sweden train travel moves a step closer

Yle News
Posted: Monday, March 29, 2021 at 10:08
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There is something that marks Finland and Sweden out as unusual in Europe: They are neighbouring countries that do not

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* Featured * Countries General Iceland News Newsroom Picks • zone 2 RCI Society Society (Iceland) 

UK variant cases prompt Iceland to tighten up border measures and domestic restrictions

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 16:01
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Iceland is putting new COVID-19 rules in place at the border after Iceland’s chief epidemiologist says new COVID-19 domestic waves

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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